Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me. All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It’s up to me.

Her eyes flutter up to meet mine. “Are you hungry?”she asks. Am I ever.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Mia,” Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. “You’re starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.

I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.